I got a new (2nd-hand) video card, which was nice.. now I just have to rebuild my machine to be a couple of degrees awesomer than it is, though still way less awesome than I’d need to do Crysis justice. At least I might be able to voice-chat and not have TF2 crap its pants…

Greetings, Westerners! I come from the FUTURE (China’s time zone) where Christmas day is almost over. I am happy to report that the world will not end in a terrible nuclear holocaust before Christmas is over.

Oh, while you were playing Peggle I had my apartment full of pretty Asian girls (and one other guy) and we had a soberiffic time. :D

Ugh, I didn’t sleep. I stayed up beating ep2 for the third or fourth time, bought Psychonauts for the great $9.99 price-tag and still moaning about the ApLabs Coffee Mug Debacle. (What next in the parade of constant interruptions?)

RPS – I like you guys verymuchso. I believe I will sign up as a legit acct as my new year’s resolution :).

I’ve finally plucked up the courage to continue with Stalker. I’ve done something bloody stupid though, used all my bandages when entering the underground part full of zombies with guns, and saved the game accidentally when I was seconds from death, meaning I’ve had to download a trainer to keep me alive till I find enough bandages. Well… It’s either that or start from the beginning, and that ain’t gonna happen. I feel like a fraud though… I guess I am :(

COD4 is freshly installed late last night for today, but will most likely have to wait till tonight as there is way too much cooking and family pestering to camp out at the PC for longer then 20 minutes :(

With my family, and somehow managed to receive no computer games at all. Which is bloody annoying, as now I have to go buy all those things I was holding off getting myself. Cock.

Being with my family, I’ve just got my macbook for comfort. In between 1000 words of work, I’ve been playing lots of fan modules for NWN, and completed another mission in Fallout 2. I’m jonesing like a bastard for my desktop, so I could run away to Paragon City for a while, though.

I’ll be playing: TF2/Empires (if anyone else is playing). I might play Homeworld 2 as I only installed it for the first time yesterday. The campaign/story has already annoyed me immensly already, but the skirmish is mega fun. I may even play it online!

As for the celebration of infant Santa, I believe I shall follow tradition; dousing my limber limbs in the blood of five virgin goats, and drinking ale until I pass out during an intense game of Scrabble.
The Yuletides were kind to me this year; I received Guitar Hero 3, along with Metroid and Super Paper Mario. I’ll probably still find time for some TF2, though.

Well I’m at the rentals, so most of my gaming opportunities were absent. But my Dad has a 360 and a copy of the Orange Box that I bought for his birthday (he got BioShock for Christmas), so I played a couple of rounds of TF2 (haha, Xbox players are *rubbish* I cleaned up!) and played Portal from start to finish (woo! Gamer points!) while waiting for the whole household to rise.

Then my dad was showing me where he got to on Assassin’s Creed last night before getting stuck (he’s trying to get to the final ‘hidden’ area but got that Memory Failed wall thing.)

Then the two of us and my brother jumped into my new copy of COD4 after dinner for a couple of hours.

So I wasn’t using it to avoid my family I’m afraid (neither was I on the PC… hell, I’m on a Mac now… I hope you can forgive me) but there was a good deal of gaming going on this Christmas!

Also received The Phantom Hourglass, so I’ll probably getting into that soon.

EVE: Online has finally tempted me out of my long-held-opposition to monthly charges and drawn me in, so I’ve been running away from the family at regular intervals to switch skill training and set up a few more sell orders. Ahem.

In the absence of being with my real family this Christmas, this year I spent pretty much all of Christmas Day playing with my virtual family in Sims 2. (Note the timestamp – I’ve only just stopped playing)

In the last ten hours or so, I’ve sired three children by two different women, become Mayor, custom built a huge mansion, and managed not to have the traditional drunken, blazing row with my parents while playing Trivial Pursuit. I should do Christmas like this every year… it’s much more fun!

It warms my heart that people are still playing Second Sight, it really does!

As for the original point of this thread: my gaming highlight of this Xmas has been watching my brothers play Mario Galaxy. I know this is a PC gaming forum, and I know this answer doesn’t involve me actually playing anything, but that game is so fun even just to watch that it’s still true so there. :)

I, erm, requested Stalker in my stocking. (Or I would’ve, if we used stockings.) And, yes, you lot are entirely to blame for this.

Been too preoccupied with TF2 – and a visit to EVE – to actually install it, though. (Lots of new guys on the servers lead to hilariously surreal rounds of Dustbowl. “What’s this class stuff? Where are we going? Why is there a knife in my spine?”)